Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology; specifically, for his work on synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1969. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970, announced October 15, 1970. Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, and Julius Axelrod, “for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation”. Sir Bernard Katz: born 1911, Leipzig, Germany. Ulf von Euler: born 1905, Stockholm, Sweden. Julius Axelrod: born 1912, New York, NY, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).